Applied AI Engineer – AdTech

The role of an Applied AI Engineer – AdTech at Yodo 1

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You will: As an Applied AI Engineer – AdTech Architect, you will ship the trusted data, experimentation, and agent systems that power our AdTech platform.

Must have: A proven track record of shipping reliable, AI-enabled software end-to-end.

WHO WE ARE | WHAT WE DO

At Yodo1, we don’t just grow games—we help turn them into household names.

With billions of downloads across our portfolio, we’ve spent more than a decade shaping the growth of iconic titles. From helping first-time creators monetize their debut games, to bringing world-class IPs from Hasbro, Paramount, Legendary, and Sony Pictures into the hands of top studios such as Rivergame, Candivore, 37Games, and Tencent Studios—we’ve proven what’s possible when creativity meets global expertise.

Our Games is raising the bar: transforming great titles into lasting franchises that define gaming for generations. Drawing on experience with successes like Transformers: Earth Wars, Rodeo Stampede, and Ski Safari, we provide the systems, partnerships, and global reach that help visionary developers build worlds players will return to for decades.

Joining Our Games means more than a job—it means becoming part of a team that lives and breathes games, works with some of the most talented creators in the industry, and is driven by a mission to shape the future of gaming.

We love games. We play games. And together, we grow games that last.

WHAT WE BELIEVE | HOW WE WORK

We believe in the future and power of the mobile gaming industry and that everyone deserves an equal opportunity to build a life they love through games—from anywhere in the world.

We believe you know when and where you do your best work. We are fully remote by design and we WFA: Work From Anywhere. We don’t impose hours or limit time off.

We are driven by performance and we experiment often. We care about impact, not titles.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Yodo1 is looking for an Applied AI Engineer – AdTech to build production AI systems for complex, data-rich business workflows.

You will help build the intelligence layer behind the business: systems that understand live data, investigate problems, recommend actions and safely automate work that does not scale by hand. You will work across AI, backend and data engineering to turn promising agent capabilities into dependable tools people use to make real decisions.

WHAT WE EXPECT

You will:

• Design and evolve the data systems that turn fragmented revenue and event data into one trusted foundation.
• Develop and run checks that measure data quality, reconcile sources and catch regressions, failure modes and edge cases.
• Improve business decision-making through trusted metrics, experimentation and automated analysis.
• Investigate production failures and systematically improve pipeline robustness, latency and reliability.
• Build data products and feedback loops that give AI agents the context, tools and signals they need to investigate and act.
• Work closely with product, engineering and commercial teams to embed data and AI into high-value workflows.
• Help define what “good” looks like for systems making and automating complex business decisions end to end.

You must have:

• Have experience building or shipping machine learning or LLM-powered products.
• Are strong in Python and comfortable with modern ML tooling.
• Have built and operated production data systems using large, complex or event-level datasets.
• Think in terms of complete systems and business outcomes not only pipelines, models or individual technical components.
• Enjoy investigating messy production failures, finding their root causes and turning them into lasting improvements.

You might have:

• Experience with agent frameworks or tool-using LLM systems.
• Experience working with large, messy datasets or production logs.
• Experience with advertising technology, including mediation platforms, ad networks, DSPs or exchanges.

WHAT WE OFFER

Compensation. We pay based on qualifications, experience, and fit for the role. We provide an allowance to purchase your own device or equipment and offer variable compensation through our annual bonus program.

Growth. We offer an environment where you will have the trust and freedom to try, fail, learn fast, and make a real impact while accelerating your career, and where anyone with a great idea can pitch it directly to our management team.

WFA. Work from anywhere in the world, travel when and where you like, get paid in your currency of choice, and enjoy flexible hours and unlimited paid time off.

Community. Work with an energetic, fast-learning, supportive, and diverse team of Yodies across six continents and 30+ countries who share and support new ideas and get things done.

About Yodo1

After two-plus decades of helping companies like Microsoft build businesses in strategic regions, James LaLonde and Henry Fong got together over a shared love of gaming to set their sights on a new challenge. In 2011, Yodo1 was born to help indie studios and solo developers simplify the long, complex process of scaling mobile games and make it easy to unlock rapidly-growing markets.

Over the years, we cooked up a secret sauce for monetizing mobile games, first in China—then worldwide—with iconic titles such as Rodeo Stampede, Transformers: Earth Wars, and Crossy Roads. So far, we’ve helped over 6,000 indie developers generate millions of dollars from their games and engage more than 3.5 billion players.

Today, we’re combining the art and science of mobile game growth by pairing over a decade of industry expertise with the latest technologies to simplify and optimize growth for thousands of studios across dozens of countries. Now, Yodo1 is the one partner mobile game developers need to manage and accelerate every stage of growth so they can get back to building the next breakthrough experience.

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